How to tell if First gear teeth are Damaged?

[Chevyguy]

I finally spent the 35 min necessary to pull open my "good" broken T-5 that was popping out of first gear. This was a nice unit built with a good quality 2.95 first gear set and a billet cluster support, full steel input shaft bearing retainer and tube.



Anyhow the builder told me to replace the quadrant before installing the trans, and to check/replace motor mounts and center motor.

Yeah yeah, it's all good

6 months later I noticed the motor mounts were completely shot, so I got a set of convertible mounts

Soon afterward the stock clutch quadrant completely failed. Just slammed down while sitting at light, car stalled and lurched forward, foot still on the floor!! Seemed like the cable broke but soon figured the pawl completely stripped and let go.

Soon after all this was fixed the trans started popping out of first from a stop. This startled the **** out of me, and never got used to it. It slowly got harder and harder to grab first. I was able to get my spare T-5 working as it had some mutant reverse setup that would not work. So that trans went in Winter of 04 just when I bought the 93 Vic.

Check out the pic of the 1-2 fork, the crappy quadrant caused the gears to spin too much during idling, then shifting into first would start to dig into the fork due to the force of the spinning 1-2 slider.


Note almost no damage to the engagment teeth that I can see, the 1-2 slider teeth would require dissasembly of the mainshaft for inspection.





It almost looks like replace fork, new pads and back together?? I was expecting more obvious damage to the face teeth and slider, now I am not sure what to do.